Simon Phipps writes: > On May 31, 2007, at 13:36, James Carlson wrote: > > > I don't think anyone is saying that you can't create a distribution > > yourself without bothering with any project, community, or governing > > board. You can. Knock yourself out. > > But that's not what's happening. If a Sun-sponsored team went off > outside the scope of the community and created a distribution like > the one being proposed as "Indiana", all hell would break loose here.
The part that you snipped away was where John Plocher was asserting that this case would somehow prevent future distributions (such as the ones we now have) from even starting. I don't believe that's the case. > We are now at the stage where (as John Plocher said) for some reason > some high-profile individuals are "throwing up logistical barriers to > this effort instead of facilitating them", something that has not > seemed to happen to a project proposal on OpenSolaris before. I just don't see it that way. Is having a community endorse this project a "barrier?" And one that necessarily causes undue hardship? If so, then perhaps it's time to amend the constitution we just ratified. Merely ignoring it doesn't seem like a reasonable option to me. > Thus, as a community member, I'd like to see a team form and get > started. I would really like to see the OGB we elected facilitate > rather than obstruct, please. So far, I haven't seen anyone trying to obstruct. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
